7. HE WAS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
Mediators are interpreters. They can understand and speak the language of all parties for whom they mediate. Jesus was a mediator who was anointed with the ability to hear God’s voice and speak what he heard with Godly authority.
As a son of God, Jesus could hear and understand God’s spoken voice. As a son of man, Jesus could speak the language of men. The essence of his ministry was to serve as an interpreter of what God said into language that religious people could understand. In other words, Jesus spoke for God. That does not mean that he was God.
Jesus was anointed with the power to speak for God to people who could not otherwise hear or understand God’s spoken voice. He did not add to or subtract from what God said because God’s laws, his character and his words are absolute; they do not change. There was no give-and-take kind of mediation like we think of in human terms. The only authority Jesus had was to speak for God. He had no power or authority that was uniquely his. He was a man, a servant, who had no aspirations to be God or illusions that he was God.